Ode to Darkness. Ode to Silence.

European Magazine 11 (April 1787) 286.

Anonymous

A pair of octosyllabic odes in the manner of Il Penseroso. Raymond Dexter Havens includes only the first in his catalogue of Milton imitations, but they would seem to be related, if only by their topics. The Ode to Silence plays with sound by alternating couplets and quatrain rhymes, concluding with an alexandrine couplet: "Whilst in one jovial, full, concordant strain | Sounds the shrill-echoing horn, enlivening all the plain."